Don Mitchell (1) (1961–)

Don Mitchell was born in 1961. He is a graduate of San Diego State University and Pennsylvania State University. He received a Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 1992, working with Neil Smith. He taught at the University of Colorado, Boulder before joining Syracuse University as a professor of show more geography in the late 1990s. He is best known for his work on cultural theory and the People's Geography Project. He works on labor struggles, human rights, and justice. In 1998, he became a MacArthur Fellow, and in 2008 a Guggenheim Fellow. He was awarded the Anders Retzius Medal from the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography in 2012. He is the author of several books including The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space, The People's Property?: Power, Politics and the Public, and The Freedom Summer Murders. (Bowker Author Biography) show less